Resources
Research and Investigative Reports
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The first-ever global examination of the medical device industry reveals.that health authorities across the globe have failed to protect millions of patients from poorly tested implants, https://www.icij.org/investigations/implant-files/
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New York Times video tells how and why we are losing the war against bacteria. They are rebelling with resistance outsmarting antibiotics. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/health/drug-resistant-candida-auris.html
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Doctors' complaints about quality of care spur investigations and retaliatory firings. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2018/10/16/dmc-harper-hospital-leaders-state-inspectors-dirty-instruments-complaints/1657168002/
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Kaiser Health News gives us the details on Medicare penalties for patient harm (2017)
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Vox investigated central line bloodstream infections (CLABSI), an infection that hospitals can nearly always prevent and asks, "Why don’t they?" (2015)
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A Reuters series is the result of an investigation into America ignoring and failing to account for antibiotic-resistant infections (2016).
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Minneapolis Star Tribune, Medtronic collected data on thousands of patients given its Infuse device, uncovering complications. The problems went unreported for years - even as scrutiny intensified (2016).
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The Atlanta Journal Constitution's national investigation reveals a broken system of physician oversight that forgives sexually abusive doctors in every state (2017).
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The Seattle Times published a series of articles examining operating room practices in a major hospital that led to patient harm (2017).
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This USA Today page is a compilation of articles that give a thorough review of how the public came to know about deadly superbugs contaminating medical scopes due to ineffective cleaning (2015).